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trees in secluded hillside plantations. On a pond in the 
north Magpies have for years in succession nested, some- 
times in a long dyke of sallows which crosses it, where 
the nest overhung the water at a height of two or three 
feet—(it was in 1900 here, built mainly of gorse sticks)— 
sometimes in the bushes of an islet, recalling sites used in 
~the west of Ireland, as recorded by Mr. Ussher. In 1901 
Mr. Graves saw a nest in a tall ‘Monkey-Puzzle’ at 
Rheaby. Another nest which Mr. Graves examined in 
course of building in 1899, in a low tree at the top of 
a mountain glen, was being lined with moist soil (not clay 
or mud) before the roof was built. 
The average laying time is about the middle of April. 
Mr, Roeder, in ‘Manx Notes and Queries, 66 (Isle of Man 
Examiner, 1902), says that old Manx people considered the 
sight of a Magpie hopping on the road before one unlucky. 
Introduced into Ireland some two hundred years ago, the 
Magpie is now abundant there. In Kirkcudbrightshire it 
is said to be all but extirpated, but in north-western 
England holds its own, in spite of the persecution which 
has made it rare in many English counties, Unknown in 
the Outer Hebrides, it is one of the rarest of stragglers to 
Orkney and Shetland. 
CORVUS MONEDUTA, Linn. JACKDAW. 
Manx, Juan-teayst (M.S. D. and Cr.). An attempt at transla- 
tion of the English name read as ‘John Dough’! Perhaps the 
absence of a Gaelic name in use in Man implies the late 
introduction of the species. 
The Jackdaw is a familiar bird in the Isle of Man, where 
its nesting haunts are often of a less artificial character than 
in England. It is nevertheless common in the towns and 
